[Talk-GB] Same old, same old...

[Ken Kilfedder]

I've noticed, since lockdown, that several houses have got new high-contrast, very obvious numbers, which I attribute entirely to the massive uplift in online shopping and meal delivery.

I even saw two neighbouring houses last week with bright 7-segment and dot-matrix LED displays... school projects?

Still baffling numbers of houses with *no* visible numbers at all, though.

(I speak as someone who's added about 4000 housenumbers during covid exercise walks in 2021, I've done a *lot* of peering at people's front doors in the dark)

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On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, at 12:32 PM, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote:
> In my experience,  small shops in traditional high streets are among the worst offenders. What help is it to know that Jones the Butcher is at 14 High Street, if hardly any shop fronts display a number?
> I would imagine it might be easier to pass a law obliging commercial premises to display a number than it would be for homes in a residential street.
> 
> Peter
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>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 12:22, David Woolley
>> <forums at david-woolley.me.uk> wrote:
>> On 19/03/2021 11:54, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> > Still, the fixing of the diminutive
>> > figure plate on the sideposts of a door, or, as is frequently found to
>> > be the case, in the shadow of a porch, is very tantalising, especially
>> > to the stranger.
>> 
>> Things have gone downhill, it seems.  Now (when trying to report fly tip 
>> locations) I find there are often runs of up to three or four houses 
>> with no visible numbers at all! (I believe some US city corporations 
>> make it a legal requirement to have a house number displayed.)
>> 
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